by Timothy L. Drobnick Sr.
This article was orginally written to teach my --------------------------------------------------------- when I was on the phone as a telemarketer, I discovered If I kept my activity regular, that is if I worked the same I proved this theory over and over, not only to myself, but Each day I would keep track of how many contacts I made. Not A contact would be actually speaking with someone that could If you are calling businesses, the person answering the phone At the time, I was able to sell one product for every contacts To have a dependable income, I knew at the time what my ratio At my peak with this product, I knew that if I wanted to earn At the end of every week, my closing ratio would not vary more Wouldn't you like to know that when you pick up that phone, HERE ARE IMPORTANT THING TO REMEMBER I discovered that I could only depend on these numbers if: 1. I was in good health. Some days the ratio would bounce from 1 to 1 But I discovered, that over a weeks period of I suspect that since you are just starting out If you are keeping track of your ratios, you can To prove this system, I started a non existant Within 2 years, I had 1000 salespeople working I ran that business for 7 years and then retired. SO I KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT ON RATIOS. This is why we will request you to keep Write the name of each business you contact, 1. No Contact, (That means
members how to get ISP clients, but you can use
it for almost any business that you are in.
The magic and science of statistics and sales.
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something very important.
amount of time each day, and if I was in good health, I could
come to depend my income upon numbers.
having hundreds of telemarketers do the same thing.
calls, contacts.
make a decision.
is not always the one that can make your decision you need, so
that would not count as a contact.
I made. As time went by, I kept reading books on sales, self
motivation, etc. and eventually improved my closing ratio on
this same product to 1 sale for every 3.47 contacts.
of sales were for the time.
$800.00 for the week, I had to make 400 presentations each week.
than a fraction of a presentation. Some weeks it would be 1
in 3.47 or 3.24 or 3.30. It seldom varied much more than that.
and get a no, you are now only 2.24 presentations away from
a yes?
2. I put in the same amount of activity each day.
3. I kept track of my contacts.
4. I did not worry about the day to day ratios, the
only one that counted was at the end of the week.
and some days 1 to 10.
time, I got overall for the week, the very same
ratio I counted on, week after week.
that your ratio on finding businesses that want
website hosting will be 1 in 10. If that is your
ratio, then you can learn to depend on it.
also improve yourself to get a better ratio!
telemarketing company from nothing, no sales
people, and started hiring and teaching my
system.
out of our offices, grossing 10 million dollars
a year.
track of businesses that say yes or no.
and beside it write
you did not talk to a decision maker. If you
talked to the receptionist, but that person
was not a decision maker, that is a no contact),
or 2. Turn Down. (That means you did talk to or 3. SIGN UP. (That means they buy a website hosting or 4. Call Back. (You talked to someone that wants At the end of each day count how many Turn Downs You will notice wide ratio swings each day, We have a form on a website that we want you to ONCE YOU KNOW YOUR RATIO, At the begginning If you know your ratio is 1 in 10, and this IT IS A PRINCIPLE YOU CAN COUNT ON! About the Author
Owner of P.E.E.L. Inc., has helped over 500 people set up their own local ISP business. Tim's information is published on Audio Cds and teaches at local seminars. You can get more information at http://www.FreeSeminar.biz or send a blank email here: mailto:TimothyDrobnick@SELLinternetACCESS.org If you like home spun stories go to TimsHomeTownStories.com
the decision maker, but they said no),
package from you).
you to call back, that person may or may not be
a decision maker).
and how many SIGN UPs you have. The others
DO NOT count toward your ratio.
but when you total them up at the end of each
week, you will notice that soon your weekly
average will be about the same.
enter your TURN DOWNS and SIGN UPS, so we can
help you keep track of this, and let you compare
with the other salesperson.
of every week, you can decide how many
SALES you are going to get!!
week you want 50 sales, you know you
have to do 500 contacts!!